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PSI Talks during 2008-2009

Fall Quarter, 2008

• Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy presents
  Frank Bean ( Professor of Sociology )
  Immigration Research at UCI
  
  
• Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Demographic and Social Analysis presents
  Marianne Bitler ( Associate Professor of Economics )
  Effects of Increased Access to Infertility Treatment on Infant and Child Health: Evidence from Health Insurance Mandates
  
  
• Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Gender, Work and Family Research Group presents
  Greg Duncan ( Professor of Education )
  Early Childhood Poverty and Adult Attainment, Behavior and Health (with Kathleen M. Ziol-Guest and Ariel Kalil)
  
  
• Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Gender, Work and Family Research Group presents
  Hilde Coffé ( Assistant Professor of Sociology, Utrecht University )
  Patterns, Not Gaps: Gender Differences in Political Participation
  
  
• Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy presents
  Stanley R. Bailey ( Assistant Professor of Sociology )
  Unmixing for Race-Making: Dilemmas of Affirmative Action in Brazil
  
  
• Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Demographic and Social Analysis presents
  Leah Boustan (Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles)
  Was Postwar Suburbanization "White Flight"? Evidence From the Black Migration
  
  
• Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy presents
  David Neumark ( Professor of Economics )
  Measuring the Importance of Labor Market Networks
  
  
• Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Demographic and Social Analysis presents
  Andrew Noymer ( Assistant Professor of Sociology )
  War, race and disease: Tuberculosis in black and white troops in the Union Army during the Civil War
  
  
• Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Demographic and Social Analysis presents
  Julie Ohlander ( Lecturer of Criminology, Law and Society )
  The Decline of Suicide in Sweden
  

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Winter Quarter, 2009

• Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Gender, Work and Family Research Group presents
  David Frank (Professor of Sociology )
  Cross-National Variations in the Criminal Regulation of Sex
  
  
• Tuesday, January 13, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy presents
  George Farkas (Professor of Education )
  Early Inequality
  
  
• Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Demographic and Social Analysis presents
  Tsui-o Tai ( Postdoctoral Researcher of Sociology )
  Poverty, Household Composition, and Welfare States: A Multi-level Analysis of 22 Countries
  
  
• Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy presents
  Nadia Kim ( Assistant Professor of Sociology, Loyola Marymount University )
  America's Migrating Color Lines: The Case of Koreans from Seoul to LA
  
  
• Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Gender, Work and Family Research Group presents
  Katie Bolzendahl ( Assistant Professor of Sociology )
  "Doing Gender" in National Legislatures: Insights from Interviews and Committee Rosters in Germany, Sweden and the United States
  
  
• Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Demographic and Social Analysis presents
  James Pick ( Professor of Business, Redlands University )
  Which are the Largest Cities in the World?
  
  
• Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Demographic and Social Analysis presents
  Patrick Heuveline ( Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles)
  The Death Toll of the Khmer-Rouge Regime (1975-1979)
  
  
• Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy presents
  Suzanne Model ( Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts-Amherst )
  Studying Immigrants Cross-Nationally: The West Indian Case
  
  
• Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy presents
  Jeanne Batalova ( Migration Policy Institute )
  Chasing the American Dream: Highly Skilled Immigrants in the US Labor Market
  

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Spring Quarter, 2009

• Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Demographic and Social Analysis presents
  Mireille Jacobson ( Associate Professor of Social Ecology )
  Reimbursement Policy and Cancer Chemotherapy Treatment: Evidence from the Medicare Modernization Act.
  
  
• Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Gender, Work and Family Research Group presents
  Evan Schofer ( Associate Professor of Sociology )
  The Structure of Education and National Income Inequality
  
  
• Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy presents
  Jutta Heckhausen ( Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior )
  Developmental Regulation Across the Life Span: Individual Agency and Society
  
  
• Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  PAA Practice Talks
  Three 15-minute practice talks and Q+A.
  - Changing Attitudes toward Marriage and Children in Six Countries • Zoya Gubernskaya
  - "School or Work" or "School and Work"? Enrollment and Intergenerational Variation in Work Activity among Mexican-Origin Adolescents • James D. Bachmeier with Frank Bean
  - Self-Rated Health: Is Happiness the Missing Link? • Andrew Noymer with Leah Ruppanner
  Can't make it to Detroit? Come hear your colleagues in Irvine!
  

• Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Gender, Work and Family Research Group presents
  Judy Rosener, author, "Ways Women Lead",Harvard Business Review, 1990; co-author, Workforce America,(McGraw-Hill; Irwin, 1990); America's Competitive Secret, Women Managers, Oxford University Press, 1995); currently writing Organizational Intercourse for Stanford University Press ( Professor, Emerita of Merage School of Business )
  Female Disadvantages at Work: What Have Brains and Hormones Got to Do With it?
  
  
• Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Gender, Work and Family Research Group presents
  Elianne van Steenbergen ( Visiting Scholar at University of California, Los Angeles )
  The Sunny Side of Work-Family Role Combination for Individuals, Employers, and Couples
  
  
• Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Demographic and Social Analysis presents
  Christopher Carpenter ( Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy )
  New Evidence on Sexual Orientation, Partnership, and Outcomes
  
  
• Tuesday, June 2, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Gender, Work and Family Research Group presents
  Karen Rook ( Professor of Psychology and Social Behavior )
  Older Adults' Strategies for Protecting, Repairing, and Expanding their Social Relationships

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